Hope Hicks shocker:

[Kingofalldems]

Link to tweet

[struggle4progress]

1. "O noes! Say it ain't so, Hopey!"

[catbyte]

2. Yep, it's CYA time, Ms. Hicks. She's got a long ways to go to retirement, and

convicted felons usually don't get the top jobs. Usually. I guess there's always fox-pac.

[allgood33]

5. They must have the goods on her for the cover story about the Trump meeting with the Russians.

Maybe it was she who drafter the cover story for Jr. and Trump approved it?

[colorado_ufo]

31. She was on Air Force 1, if I remember correctly,

and suggested how to handle the Trump Tower meeting leak.

[allgood33]

40. Yes, at the time the talking points for the Trump Tower meeting were drafted. nt

[Blue_true]

44. She comes from a decently well off family.

Her dad is a right hand man for NFL Comish Goodell and before that he was an executive. So he started selling his soul a long time ago. Goodell makes ~$46 million per year, his righthand man likely makes at least $1 million per. And none of it has to be made public.

Her parents could likely set her up for life if she fell hard.

[certainot]

51. oughta be U$$R TRUMP

and i wish twitter news included the actual text.....

Rep. Swalwell says that former White House communications director Hope Hicks has been cooperating with the House Judiciary Cmte., and when he interviewed her for the House Intel Cmte. she said "she had told lies for the president."

[PeeJ52]

3. Fire up the Twitter machine!!! I sense a meltdown...

Please be the one... Please be the one...

[guillaumeb]

4. She lied? For Trump?

Unimaginable.

[erronis]

10. I'd think we were really in never-never land if dump/aides ever told the truth.

And this is becoming the norm for the (R)epuglicons. Never tell the truth.

[guillaumeb]

38. Many times, the truth would be an indictment of the GOP. eom

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Ms.Hicks better watch out for the

Trump Bus.

[Leghorn21]

7. It's her word against fine-upstanding-Mr. Clean-lawyer Mark Corallo's:

Former Trump team legal spokesperson Mark Corallo had concerns that White House communications director Hope Hicks could be considering obstructing justice after a comment she reportedly made about emails between Donald Trump Jr. and Russians...Hicks allegedly told President Donald Trump on a conference call that the Trump Jr. emails "will never get out," and Corallo plans to share the conversation with special counsel Robert Mueller, the Times reported Wednesday night, citing three people with knowledge of his interview request.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/31/politics/mark-corallo-hope-hicks-donald-trump-jr-emails/index.html

Just for this alone, I’d say she’s in a heap o’ well-deserved shit

[triron]

15. Anxious to hear Rachel or Lawrence interview Swalwell about this.

[DontBooVote]

19. I hope her piece of shit ass spends the rest of her miserable life in prison!

[tblue37]

27. She won't. They flipped her with that leverage, which is why she is being so cooperative. nt

[colorado_ufo]

33. She has to cooperate if she has any hope of a future.

She already threw away some important years of her life serving Trump Inc.

[Leghorn21]

35. Yah, serving trump, plus choosing Corey Lewandowski and Rob Porter as sweethearts is probably not

“time well spent” either


NOT THAT IT’S ANY OF MY BUSINESS

[Power 2 the People]

57. She apparently likes abusive pricks.I don't trust her at all.

[Ilsa]

50. Mark Corallo vs Jared story:

From Kushner, Inc:


When Mark Corallo, then the spokesman for President Donald Trump’s legal team, declined an offer to take over as the White House communications director in the summer of 2017, Jared Kushner reportedly refused to take 'no' for an answer.

"Don’t you want to serve your country?" Kushner, according to a new book, asked Corallo, an Army veteran and longtime Washington public relations executive. "Young man," Corallo reportedly replied, "my three years at the butt end of an M16 checked that box."

Snip

Soon after, amid an onslaught of negative press coverage calling his integrity into question, Corallo reportedly received a call from a reporter who informed him that a Kushner aide had been dispatched to "[thrash him] all over town."

"Dude," the reporter said, "what did you do to Jared and Ivanka?"

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/javanka-book-details-perils-crossing-ivanka-trump-jared/story?id=61639588

[Leghorn21]

55. Thanks for this, Ilsa!

Ewwww, who are these fkn people

(And whose dream job, one wonders, would include “aide to Jared Kushner”? Ewwww)

[Blue Owl]

8. Baby done a bad, bad thing

[erronis]

12. She's still at that "grabbing" age so she may be safe.

[sdfernando]

28. Why do you think he has such animosity towards transgender people?

Its happened before...bank on it!

[DontBooVote]

20. I hope she pays for her part in keeping that bastard in place with every moment of the rest of her

god-forsaken life!

[FormerOstrich]

9. but I think they were white-lies

so she gets a free pass. Right? RIGHT? Are the consequences different for little white lies versus big white lies? I think for sure she had her fingers crossed for insurance.

so it goes....

[lagomorph777]

14. Yes, white people get a pass for lies.

[FormerOstrich]

16. Of course they do!

In case anyone thought the Ostrich made up the white lie thing....it originated with Hope herself. BUT BUT BUT she assured everyone that her white lies didn't really matter...so why would they need her testimony?

WASHINGTON — Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, told House investigators on Tuesday that her work for President Trump, who has a reputation for exaggerations and outright falsehoods, had occasionally required her to tell white lies.

But after extended consultation with her lawyers, she insisted that she had not lied about matters material to the investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible links to Trump associates, according to three people familiar with her testimony.

Read it here February 27th, 2018

[lagomorph777]

18. That was just fine when Devil Nunes was in charge.

I don't think it'll fly now!

[Duppers]

53. Yep, when cows fly.

Or was that pigs?

Anywho, Devil Nunes, good touch. Gonna milk that one.

[jalan48]

11. Hope and Changed 2019

[lagomorph777]

13. I hope Hicks tells EVERYTHING.

She knows where a lot of bodies are buried.

[hvn_nbr_2]

17. She received a Dickensian visitation... from the ghost of incarceration future. nt

[Botany]

32. Seeing Cohen get 3 years in part for lying to congress might have woke her ass up.

n/t

[BlueFlorida]

21. She doesn't want to go to jail

She is very young and a sentence will ruin her life.

There must have been a point when she realized that she was playing with fire and it was not fun and games like in her old job at the Trump Tower.

[colorado_ufo]

29. Very young and easily influenced.

She left the admin early, I'm sure hoping to avoid the unavoidable mess. She got in WAY over her head.

[Ligyron]

22. Lied for the President?

Why, it's right there in the job description. Wasn't it?


"I was just doing my job..."

[KPN]

23. This is old news isn't it? I think she already

stayed this to either the House or Senate investigative committee(s) last year.

[FakeNoose]

45. Yes this is old - she testified to the House Intel Committee

... and to Mueller while she was still working for Chump. It was at least a year and a half ago, maybe longer. I remember her saying she "lied for Trump" because she called them "white lies." Everybody sort of chuckled over that, but nary a word from Chumpie himself. Her boyfriend Rob Porter got fired from the White House, and then she resigned pretty soon after that.

[KPN]

54. Right. That's what I thought. I have this awful feeling that many here at DU are goping to be

disappointed with the Mueller report, if and when we ever see it. The almost euphoric response to tidbits, even old rehashed news like this one, reminds me of the euphoria that comes before the crash for manic depressives.

I hope I am wrong about this, but my gut is warning me.

[SHRED]

24. Lying for all innocent pResident

Ya, that makes sense.

[pnwmom]

25. And their response will be -- there's no law against telling lies if they're not under oath. n/t

[Tanuki]

30. Good preparation for her new job as Chief Communications Officer at Fox.

Telling lies for Trump would seem to be part of the job description.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/business/media/hope-hicks-fox-job.amp.html

[DeminPennswoods]

34. She figured out Trump ain't worth jail

time.

[red dog 1]

36. Has anyone who worked in the WH under Trump NOT lied?

K&R

[HuskyOffset]

49. Groundskeeping staff?

But then, they work outside the White House. Literally.

[dem4decades]

37. She's not the only one that lies for him. If she faces jail time why not Sanders and Conway?

To name a few.

[still_one]

39. She would be a fool not to. She is under oath

[Blue_true]

41. Wise move. She would maybe last 1 month in women's lockup. nt

[certainot]

52. i'm not so sure, she has a kinda vampire look

[llmart]

42. Singing like a canary...

Hey Hope honey...haven't you heard? Orange is the new Black!

[Blue_true]

43. On a related matter.

The Crypt Keeper (Rudy Ghouliani) has been quite for a couple of months. Wonder whether he is working his own Rat (as Trump would call him) deal?

[Hotler]

46. he's busy fighting with the soon to be exwife. nt

[Blue_true]

47. Is future wife #4 by his side in court? It's all about family values you know. nt

[Bob Loblaw]

48. "How's that Hopey Hicksy thing

working out for ya'."

-- Sarah Palin (sorta)

[Nitram]

56. Nice hair.